"Hope is not just ... looking out the window and going, 'Everything looks pretty good.' That's what optimism is. Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'"– Playwright, university professor and actress Anna Deavere Smith

Posted by
Christine Spencer on Thursday, September 25, 2008
at
9:05 AM